Increased occurrence of stratospheric sudden warmings during El Niño as simulated by WACCM

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 324-332

  Taguchi, Masakazu ^a,b   Hartmann, Dennis L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b AICHI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

EL NIÑO; LA NIÑA; PLANETARY WAVE; STRATOSPHERIC SUDDEN WARMINGS; WAVE FORCING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO; STRATOSPHERE; WARMING;

EID: 33645216722     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3655.1     Document Type: Article

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